Of course, I was not there to personally witness any of the hardware or the testing. I am working entirely from second hand reports of what was done.
Rossi appears to have been well versed in the behavior of his smaller, early systems in terms of warm-up, self-sustain, re-start/maintenance modes. He apparently had difficulty getting the self-sustain mode to last for sufficient time and that may have been the bone of contention with DGT, his partner at the time. At the time he also appears to have had a relationship with Upsalla (Kullander/Essen) who appeared to at least influence the design of the "ottoman" class reactors. It appears that the "frequencies" input was first shown as part of the ottoman reactor. I surmise it was designed to help stimulate the self-sustain reaction by allowing the operation at lowest H2 pressure without spontaneous statistical cooling and drop-out of reaction because of cooling. The "frequencies" seem to have averaged out the reaction - making it less statistically chaotic. The frequencies are not required for the effect to occur, but only appear to have been added to stabilize it. An interesting, but un-discussed observation has to do with the individual reactor size. Rossi's original small eCats were using a 50g charge of fuel. It appeared that his Ottoman design used 3 internal reaction cells that were each in the 50-100g range. DGT's reactor seems to be in this 50-100g range for a reactor cell. The question that arises is, "Is there a large scale collective effect (similar to a critical mass) that is required to make this reaction stable and repeatable?" Where does the 50-100g cell size come from? Will it work just as well in 1g cells? Unknown. In Peter's post on the nanoparticles and plasmons ... It is interesting that nanoparticles are sized in a commensurate number of atoms that will both support plasmons and Rydberg condensates. Could the two phenomena be related or at least coupled? My expectation is that in a typical 50g charge of fuel, there may be ~10^18 nanosites dispersed on the nickel micropowder. Rossi claimed 5kW for 6 months on this charge which is 7.8x10^10 joules. Presuming that 50% of the nanosites were active and consumed in this period, then each nanosite would have supplied ~4x10^-8 joule/active nanosite = ~240GeV/active nanosite. If we "guestimate" ~25MEV/transmutation (estimated in D+D->He), then each active nanosite would be providing about 10,000 transmutations. This is not an unrealistic number of transmutations to occur in a ring around the nanosite on the nickel where the nanosite itself was an area containing 1000 nanopowder atoms - at least from a rough order of magnitude. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Axil Axil wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong… > > > > The “frequencies" generator was used in the 1 MW test in self-sustain mode > only after the reactor got up to temperature and the internal heater was > placed in sleep mode. > > > > Since self-sustain mode was a relatively new development associated with > and as a feature of the big 1 MW reactor, its use may not be directly > correlated with lowered H2 pressure. >
